Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	84% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (55%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 16:01
Run Duration	298 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	55%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 122 2-Core 229 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 582 61% 489 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.2% Terrible	Lighting 7.47 Reflection 11.3 Parallax 7.41 6% 8.71 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 6.5 Splatting 15.4 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.2% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 142GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 93157840652307 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1769 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 151 (B7) Unknown 100 100 493 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 28 53 51543080988 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 151 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 60 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 204600 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 62 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 204600 (F2) Unknown 100 100 356157 (F9) Unknown 100 100 25989	84% Excellent	Read 500 Write 235 Mixed 315 77% 350 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 96.9 4K Mixed 23.6 139% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 55.7 83% 154 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 91%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 4358 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 274 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 766 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1007 (C2) HDA temperature 121 109 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74.2% Very good	Read 129 Write 130 Mixed 125 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.2 101% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 86%
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 64GB-$104 633 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 54GB free, PID 162b Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 233 Write 58 Mixed 19 92% 103 MB/s	4K Read 9.51 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 1.24 107% 3.87 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 83%
UFD 2.0 Silicon-Power32G 32GB 445 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 7GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	4.43% Terrible	Read 19 Write 5.19 Mixed 6.58 10% 10.3 MB/s	4K Read 2.26 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.002 8% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.43% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x16GB 9,797 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.8 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 26.5 75% 26.3 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 95%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	777x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	80x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16